Volunteering, Skills and Employability
Power Student Potential Through Purposeful Participation
Helping students feel part of a wider community, building their confidence, developing skills and boosting employability are essential for a great student experience. But managing volunteering, tracking skills, crediting participation, and championing employability can quickly become overwhelming – especially when using different systems or multiple spreadsheets can lead to inconsistent records, inefficient processes and missed opportunities for your students.
Supporting student development shouldn’t feel disjointed. With a clear, centralised system, your team can offer a joined-up experience that encourages students to get involved, build their skillsets, and celebrates their contributions.
MSL’s Volunteering, Skills and Employability module makes it easy to connect students with meaningful opportunities, whether that’s volunteering for a local cause, joining a student-led project, or recording hours and skills towards employability awards. An all-in-one platform, from first click to final certificate.
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Some of Our Great Volunteering Clients
We have found that this MSL module provides much more than admin management – it helps us to fully support our students and manage volunteering opportunities from start to finish.- KeeleSU Volunteering
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A Connected Experience For Students and Staff
MSL’s Volunteering, Skills and Employability module gives your organisation the tools to manage everything from opportunity promotion and provider approvals to skill-building and award schemes.
Students get a streamlined way to discover, log, and reflect on their experiences, while staff and providers benefit from smart workflows, reduced admin, and better insights.
Benefits For Students:
Students can browse tailored volunteering opportunities that fit their interests, values, and schedule. Once they’ve signed up, the platform gives them a personal profile from which they can
- Log hours and reflect on their development
- See the skills they have attained
- View the training they have attended
- Be given awards based on hours or skills
- Set search filters and preferences within their profile so they only see opportunities that match their requirements
- Their whole journey recorded, providing them with a portfolio that will support their CVs and job applications. With smart notifications and easy-to-use tools, its volunteering made accessible and meaningful.
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Benefits For Your Organisation:
Behind the scenes, everything runs smoothly. From one central dashboard, you can
- Promote recurring and one-off opportunities, training and volunteering roles
- Give admin access to internal departments and third-party opportunity providers - while still managed by you
- Approve student sign-ups
- Monitor applications to participate
- Set up one-off opportunities, long-term placements, or student-led initiatives with custom forms and workflows
Communication tools mean you can send targeted, personalised and even automated messages to those who have opted in, keeping everyone informed of new opportunities. You’ll have access to full reporting so you can see who’s engaging, how many hours are being logged, and what skills students are developing across the board.
By reducing your admin and moving paper-based processes online you can concentrate on employer and participant engagement, building impactful partnerships, recognising student achievements and provide the best opportunities for your students
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Features That Build Confidence and Careers
MSL’s Volunteering, Skills and Employability module comes packed with features to help you support students at every stage of their journey:
Volunteer Management
Skills and Awards Tracking
Provider Management
Targeted Messaging
Search and Filtering Tools
Personal Profiles
Reporting and Analytics
Award Scheme Integration
Website Integration
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Designed For You
Whether you’re a students’ union, guild, association, or university, MSL’s Volunteering, Skills and Employability module is designed to flex with your needs. With custom branding, forms, workflows, and user permissions, you’re in control of the experience.
The MSL Volunteering, Skills and Employability module is available as a standalone option or integrated with the wider MSL System® for even greater value.
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Real Customer Success Stories with MSL’s Volunteering
Why Partner With MSL?
With MSL, you’re not just managing volunteering, you’re shaping
the future of student development. Our platform is intuitive, built specifically to support the needs of the student sector, and
backed by years of experience working with universities and students’ unions.
We help you improve efficiencies, increase engagement, and clearly demonstrate impact.
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Create an environment where students feel empowered, providers feel supported, and your organisation delivers real value.
Let’s make volunteering work better – for everyone!
MSL Volunteering, Skills and Employability is a platform for managing volunteering opportunities, applications, skills development and employability activity. It helps organisations support student development while reducing administrative effort.
Yes, either can create and manage their own volunteering opportunities, while your student organisation retains oversight and approval, helping ensure any opportunities added meet your requirements before being made available to students.
Using the Volunteering & Employability module, students can discover, apply for and track opportunities online. Search and filtering functionality helps them find opportunities best suited to them.
Yes, volunteer hours can be recorded, approved and reported within the system, helping Student organisations keep a clear record of student participation.
Students can record participation, skills, training and achievements across volunteering and other activities, building a profile that reflects their experience and development.
Yes, applications and approval processes can be managed digitally, improving operational efficiency for Student organisations.
Yes, external organisations and volunteering partners can participate within the platform, expanding opportunities for Student organisations.
Yes, volunteering awards, recognition schemes and certificates can be supported through the platform, helping Student organisations recognise student achievement.
Yes, students can view their volunteering activity, achievements and skills records at any time, supporting long-term engagement for Student organisations.
Yes, MSL Volunteering can be used as a standalone module or integrated with MSL Membership Management System and other MSL modules, allowing volunteering activity and skills development to connect with wider student engagement data, helping Student organisations better demonstrate student impact and outcomes.